[This Just In]

Believe it or not, I quit cold turkey as well. It wasn’t difficult at all, but than again, I had only been smoking for a month. I’m sure that had I been smoking for a much longer period of time, it would have been quite challenging.

I have an uncle and aunt as well as a friend who had smoked for decades. All went cold turkey and didn’t have a problem with it. They just stopped. I wish it was that easy for every smoker who wishes to quit.

[Telepathic Intruder]

To tell you the truth it was really hard quitting the last time. No one could believe that I went two weeks trying the first time and then failed. I went for about six months and then tried again and was successful. I'm gonna tell you right now, from the bottom of my heart to the tip of my toes. It was NOT easy.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I have an uncle and aunt as well as a friend who had smoked for decades. All went cold turkey and didn’t have a problem with it. They just stopped. I wish it was that easy for every smoker who wishes to quit.

If anyone was addicted to tobacco, it had to be my father. For more than thirty years I never saw him without a cigarette in his hand. "I smoke because I want to," he would say. To which we'd reply, "Riggght!" At the age of about sixty or so he developed severe emphysema, along with a spot on his lung. The day he got the diagnosis he quit, and never smoked another cigarette in his life.

It's all down to what you value. For years he valued the pleasure of smoking more than he valued the distant and vaguely-defined prospect of disease and death. Once those prospects became very real and near, he decided that he valued life and physical well-being more than he valued smoking.

[DaveA37]

Living in the upper mid-west (Minnesota and Wisconsin) we have a common question around these parts, it goes something like this:

“How can you tell a level headed Swede?

Answer: By the amount of tobacco running out BOTH sides of his lips.